Slide buckle



J. MALTBY SLIDE BUCKLE March 18 1924.

Filed Nov. 5, 1923 Fatented Mar. 18, 1924.

UNITED STATES PATENTOFFICE.

JULIUS MALTBY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO WATERBURY BUCKLE (30., OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION.

SLIDE BUCKLE.

Application filed November 5, 1923. Serial N0.'( 572,76Q,

T (ZZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JULIUS MALTBY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Vaterbury, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Slide Buckles; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accon1- panying drawings, and the characters of reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this application, and represent in Fig. l a view in front elevation of a slide-buckle constructed in accordance with my invention. 1

Fig. 2 a View looking toward the lower edge thereof.

'Fig. 3 an edge view thereof.

Fig. 4: a view of the slide-buckle in vertical, central section, showing itas webbed. Fig. 5 a viewcorresponding to Fig. 3, but showing a modified form of the buckleframe. My invention relates to an improved slidebuckle designed with particular reference to be used on the non-elastic straps of abdominal supporters, though not so limited, theobject being to provide a simple, strong, convenient and highly efficient buckle of the character described, in which the straps are held by the combined action of deflection and friction, rather than by prongs piercing them, and in which provision is made for neutralizing the tendency of the straps to slip when the tension upon them is entirely or measurably removed. 7

With these ends in view, my invention consists in a slide-buckle having certain details of construction as will be hereinafter described and pointed out in the claim.

In carrying out my invention, as herein shown, I employa substantially rectangular,

sheet-metal buckle-frame having a webbingopening 6, a lower gripping-bar 7, parallel side-bars 8., and, along its upper'side, an offi set 9, containing a long, narrow suspensionslot 10, designed for the reception of a short strap (not shown) by means of which thebuckle is attached to the garment. Un-

der my invention, the lower edge of the buckle-frame is formed with an integral,

receive the free end 13 of the strap 14, after the same has been threaded through the buckle and passed around the slide 15 there-- of, as shown in 4, this slide being of any approved construction and provided,

as usual, at its respective ends with fingers 16 loosely embracing the side-bars 8 of the buckle-frame upon which the slide is free to move within the limits set by the length of the said bars, -Without the anchoring-slot 12, the slide 15 will grip and hold the'strap 14 when the same is under draft, but when draft is removed or slackened, the tendency of the strap is to slip. This tendency, however, will be neutralized and practically overcome, if the end 13 of-the strap is passed from rear to front, throughthe slot 12 and then over, in front of, the loop 11, as shown in Fig. 4:. In Figs. 1 to 4 inclusive, the offset 11, containing the slot 12, is set back of the plane of the slide, but this is not essential, as evidenced by the modified construction'shown by Fig. 5, in which the olfset 11 is located in the plane of the buckleframe.

I claim: I As a new article of manufacture, a slide buckle comprising a sheet-metal buckleframe and a sheet-metal slide having slid ing movement thereupon, the said frame being formed with a suspension-slot. located at its upper end for the reception of the strap by means of which the buckle is fastened to a garment, with a webbing-opening located directly below the said slot,

boundary of the said opening, with sidebars flanking the ends'of the said opening and with an anchoring-slot located below with a gripping-bar forming the lower the said gripping-bar, and the said slide be- I I ing narrower than the width of the said opening and bent at its respective ends to loosely embrace the. side-bars of the frame, whereby, by passing the end of the strap from rear to front, through the webbingopening over the upperv edge of the said slide, then down in front of the same and from front to rear through the Webbingopening between the lower edge of the slide and the said gripping-bar and then from rear to front through the said anchoringslot, the tendency of the Webbing to slip when tension upon it is entirely or measurably removed, is neutralized.

In testimony whereof, I have signed this speelfication 1n the presence of two subscribing Witnesses.

JULIUS MALTBY. Witnesses MARTIN T. LYNN; CHESTER LITTLE. 

